Dickerson, Terrance

Tenure Summary

Terrance Dickerson has served as Warden of Jenkins Facility (GDC facility ID 108) since January 1, 2024, and remains in that post. Jenkins is the only leadership-tier position in his file; a 2024 salary year is recorded, but no salary figure is listed. Six deaths are attributed to his tenure as a facility leader, all of them at Jenkins Facility, per GPS's death records. The authoritative totals — 6 deaths, 100% of them at Jenkins — are the ones used throughout this profile; the decedent list below is the most recent sample of those records and is not itself a count.

No lawsuits naming Dickerson as a defendant appear in the records. The facility-level material that does exist consists of one case-submission allegation and several logged events dated inside his tenure, all tied to his role as Warden at Jenkins.

What happened on their watch

Jenkins Facility — Warden, January 1, 2024 to present

Six deaths attributed to this posting, per GPS death records, spanning March 2024 through April 2026: Earl Franklin Waggy, 65 (March 3, 2024); James Lee Powell, 72 (September 17, 2024); Alonzo Wright, age not recorded (January 9, 2025); Jason Brent Melton, 41 (April 10, 2025); Charles Edward Richey, 58 (April 17, 2026); and Dustin Scott Scarbro, 27 (April 21, 2026). The records assign them differing cause categories — three share one category, with the others falling in three separate categories — and no public narrative is attached to any of the six, so the available data identifies the decedents and dates without establishing circumstances. Ages range from 27 to 72, and one record lists no age at all.

On the April 21, 2026 death of Scarbro, a web form submitted to Georgia Prisoners' Speak alleges that an incarcerated person at Jenkins was "found unresponsive during a routine count," prompting a medical response and a facility-wide lockdown and shakedown, with the cause remaining undetermined. That is an allegation from a submitted report, not a finding; it is the only case-submission item logged to Jenkins during Dickerson's tenure.

The facility's event log for the same period includes a March 17, 2026 entry for a federal court ruling denying the State Board of Pardons and Paroles' motion to dismiss and holding that the parole process for juvenile lifers may violate the Eighth Amendment (the entry names Janice Buttrum). Two May 17, 2025 entries concern Telfair State Prison as titled in the records — one on denial of an emergency contact addition and barriers to family communication (naming Katie Molleur), and one on Jason Palmer's reported segregation conditions, including alleged denial of adequate food, phone access and emergency-contact registration. A March 8, 2026 entry is titled for a gang fight at Wilcox State Prison in which nine people were hospitalized, and a December 28, 2024 entry is titled for an alleged RICO operation at Smith State Prison involving Warden Brian Adams. Those four entries are logged to Jenkins's records for the period of Dickerson's tenure even though their titles reference other facilities; they are reproduced here as recorded, without asserting a connection between those events and Jenkins beyond what the records show.

No news coverage naming Dickerson directly appears in the records.

Sources

• Georgia Prisoners' Speak death records — six deaths attributed to the Jenkins Facility warden tenure, March 2024–April 2026
• GPS case-submission web form, report ID 156 — allegation of an unresponsive person found during count at Jenkins Facility, April 21, 2026
• GPS facility event logs for Jenkins Facility, 2024–2026 — court ruling entry (March 17, 2026) and incident/report entries titled Telfair, Wilcox and Smith State Prisons

Synthesized by GPS Intelligence System on Sep 23, 2026 from positions, attributed deaths, lawsuits, intel reports, and news mentions in the public corpus. The supporting data tables follow below.